Donnie's POV
"How? You're not due for another month." I said to Rox.
"True as that may be, my water just broke so can I get some fucking help with getting to a hospital?" Rox said.
"Take the shellraiser, we'll be there in a bit." Leo said, helping Raph up.
"I'll drive." Lucy said as they ran to the garage.
The distinctive sound of the shellraiser called out before gradually getting quieter.
"I'll grab our coats and hats." Mikey called before he started running the the hallway closet.
"You sure you're ok Raph?" Leo asked.
"Been better, but com'on fearless, I could be dyin' and I'd still go and see my kids be born." Raph said barly above a whisper.
"I'll call Casey and April." I said.
"April!" I called into the phone.
"Donnie, what's going on? Don't you know it's mid-"
"Rox's gone into labour, can you drive us to the hospital?"
There was a small gap of silence before April answered. "Give me 5 minutes."
I hung up and sank against the wall. In mere minutes the drama that had just happened was forgotten by everyone. Everyone but me anyway.
Growing up Mikey and I were always closest, so I knew better than anyone that Mikey was not acting himself. As if someone was controlling him. But that's impossible.
Right?
Raph's POV
I paced up and down the hospital maternity ward waiting room. In the background I could hear my brothers telling me to stop, like they had for the past 20 minutes. We were lucky that no one else was there, or we would've been ushered out by now. Not that it wasn't hard enough to get in, not that I blame the hospital for being suspicious about 4 guys in trench coats and fedoras wanting to see a woman who's giving birth. They had to get one of the girls to come out and recognise us.
Leo came up to me and forcefully put me in a chair.
"Sit!" He commanded as if I were an animal. Wait.
"Hamato Raphael?" A doctor called as he walked in.
I almost jumped up from my chair. "Yeah?"
The doctor came forward. "I'm not going to lie Mr Hamato, one premature child is 50/50 but triplets... We were certain they weren't going to make it."
I tensed up.
"But those kids," the doctor continued with a laugh. "they're fighters. They weren't giving up any time soon."
"That's my kids." I said, finally smiling.
"Come in through. All of you." He said, looking over my shoulder to my awaiting brothers and friends.
We walked down the hallway. By some of the doors there were balloons reading either 'its s boy!' or 'its a girl!' on the front of a pink or blue balloon. I almost laughed when I saw our room. There were 3 balloons, 2 for boys and one girl.
I followed the doctor in and was met with my wife, cradling our sons, our baby girl in a cot next to her.
"Hi." She whispered horsely.
"How ya doin'?" I asked.
"Fine. The babies gave me quite a scare though."
"Yeah, but they're fighters." I said with a smile.
"That, and Harvey wrapped Max's umbilical cord around his neck." Rox replied with a weak chuckle.
"Hey," I said, taking both the boys. "be nice ta each other."
"Not that we have a lot of experience with brothers playing nice Raph." Leo added.
"Point taken." I says with a nod before looking to the doctor. "So, who's oldest?"
"This little girl right here." He said, stroking her cheek. "The one in your right is the middle and left is the youngest."
"Who had their cord 'round 'is neck?"
"Left."
"Guess you're Max then." I said, bouncing the baby in my arm while glancing at Rox, who simply nodded.
A soft crying made me sharply turn my head, just to find Georgina turning in her cot.
"I got her." Donnie, who was the closest, said before picking her up and bobbing her up and down. "Shhh Georgina. Shhh." He muttered.
I looked back at my remaining child with a smile.
"That just leaves you Harvey." I said.
"Raph?" Mikey asked.
"Yeah Mike?"
"You know that none of us are gonna get any sleep for a while right?" He said with a smirk.
"I know." I said with a smile. "But I wouldn't change it for the works."